Last night I watched the Chris Nolan film Memento. This, I’m sure, leads you to two thoughts. First, what took you so long? The film is eleven years old and is considered to be a masterpiece. Second, did you forget there were college bowl games on? In my defense, eleven-years-ago I was raising...

The call for tributes to favorite REM songs went forth, and I immediately replied with my request to write about “Everybody Hurts.” Actually, “request to write about” can be interpreted in this context to mean “begged, pleaded, and may have crossed the line over to ‘demanding’”...

In 1692, three adolescent girls who lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony began acting strangely.  They had inexplicable episodes of screaming, twitching, babbling incoherently and even convulsing. When they were asked by the town elders to account for their unusual behavior, the frightened girls identified...

On Christmas Eve of 2006, I boarded a plane in Connecticut and flew home to Chicago.  My parents and siblings picked me up from the airport, and we drove to church for the Christmas Eve service. I had always hoped I’d be like Mary – a young woman who loved God, whose life took an extraordinary turn. ...